ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET (WHEN I FIND ONE)

            

     'But Poetry's dead.'
        They say
            (and Art and Drama, Music too)
                 No Muse. No Bard.
     'To write in verse and meter's
        simply wrong and rhyme
            is only for a greeting card.
     There's nothing more to say.
        It's all been said.'

     'Not so.
        If you, like me,
            must answer to the call,
                we have to reach
            beyond the blasè bred conventions
                of the unconventional.'
     Say I,
        'Keep writing. Read.
            Don't borrow, take.  Revise.
                Scan jargon, slang, but keep it true.
         Record your dreams.
            Reheed mistakes you make.
                 Clichès are lazy.
                    Tweak the old anew.
         Just overhear
            a girl with doll declare her sorrows.
                Hark when drunken sailors swear.'

 

Reviews

[Andorianskye]

amazing! i love it, i told my sister i wanted to be a poet or actress, and she said poetry was dead. good advice